Black Dragon Guide: Movement Controls 2.0

 One of the most common questions is: "How do i change the controls to be like Firestorm" or "How do i turn around". If for some reason you are not using your mouse to look around you'll find that the controls in Black Dragon slightly differ from other Viewers.

The following controls have been changed to bring them in line with industry standards:

• A / D / Arrow Left / Arrow Right makes you strafe left and right respectively. This has been changed from Shift + A / D / Arrow Left / Arrow Right.
• Q and E make you turn left and right respectively. This has been changed from A / D / Arrow Left / Arrow Right.
• Space makes you jump. This has been changed from E.
• X makes you stop all motion. This has been changed from Space.

Practically speaking if you have been using mousesteering to look around (dragging your avatar or nametag) only Jump and Stop Movement have been changed since all Viewers will use strafing while mousesteering. Most people however use the onscreen controls or keyboard only and thus notice this change a lot more.

Black Dragon offers the option to change all controls however you like. You can do so by opening Preferences and navigating to the Keybindings tab in which you will find all controls currently set up for each control mode. It looks like this:

In there, you simply double click any of the keybinds you want to change, that is for this example you will want to change the entries for "Turn Left" and "Turn Right", alternatively you can select them and click the "Modify" button at the bottom. This will open a new window that looks like this:

As per the instruction, simply press the desired key you want to change the action to be bound to, that is in this case press A for "Turn Left" and D for "Turn Right" respectively, when done you it will show you that the action will be bound to your pressed key like in the picture above, simply hit "Bind" and repeat this for the other action. After changing both "Turn Left" and "Turn Right" you will have to remove (or change) the entries for "Move Left" and "Move Right" as these are still bound to A and D. Simply select them and click "Delete" at the bottom. If you use the Arrow Left and Arrow Right keys you can simply change "Turn Left" and "Turn Right" to these, or add an entirely new set of two actions for them (this will effectively restore the original control scheme). Adding new actions is pretty simple, you click "Add" at the bottom opening a new window similar to the change binding window above. It looks like this:

Here you simply select the desired action, in this example "Turn Left" and press Arrow Left (or A) and hit "Bind" at the bottom. Repeat this process for "Turn Right" and you are good to go.

All of the above can be repeated for any controls, the Viewer offers all available movement options to be changed. Make sure that when changing or adding controls you select the correct mode at the bottom left. Changing or adding keybinds to "Third Person" is not going to affect controls in First Person (aka Mouselook) or while sitting for instance.

Following the above instructions should change this:

Into this: